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The Murder Room.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.371. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's maroon boards, titles and publisher's imprint in white to spine, yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ghost with a printed price of..... More
Original Sin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1994. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.426. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Autographed in back ink to the title page. Minor toning to text block as usual, else fine in like, fresh..... More
The Skull Beneath the Skin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.384. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. Edges slightly dusty else fine in a clean, fine wrapper. The second Cordelia Gray case. More
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820. A New Edition, with considerable Additions and Improvements, including Diagrams of all principal Actions.
London: Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [History] New Edition. Six volumes, all folding tables present. Octavos (23 x 14 x 25cm) pp.L; [2]; 568, pp.vi; [2]; 568, pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 533; [5], pp.[2]; v; [3]; 539; [3], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 581; [5], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 740; [4]. Bound in half..... More
The Charters and other Documents Relating to the King's Town and Parish of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. With Notes and Annotations Clearly Showing the Right of Election of Members of Parliament to be in the Inhabitant Householders.
London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1825. [Kent history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxxi; [1]; 238; [2]. Contemporary brown calf with single gilt borders to boards, recently rebacked in brown calf, modern grey endpapers, edges speckled red. Some spotting to first and last leaves but generally very..... More
The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1931. [Horror and Ghost Stories] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST THUS, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 647 [5]. Recently re-bound in black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others lightly trimmed, with the original cloth..... More
Golfer Story [Screenplay].
Paris: Jacques-Eric Strauss and Gerard Leclery, no date [circa 1970]. A draft pre-production screenplay. pp.50, mimeographed typescript, perfect-bound in simple yellow card covers with titles printed in black brown paper covers. A few minor marks else contents and covers near fine. An exceptionally rare script for an unrealised film project..... More
The Key Keeper. A Masque for the Opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 40 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple of..... More
Introducing James Joyce. A selection of Joyce's prose.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Excerpts] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.146 [2]. Publisher's yellow cloth with brown titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 3/6. Jacket toned, with rubbing and light chipping to edges, and heavier rubbing and browning to spine. Very good. Selected passages..... More
Ulysses.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Modern literature] FILM TIE-IN, the seventh impression of the 1960 text. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 939 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket showing a white bow to the spine, and a second black and white photographic jacket..... More
Pomes Penyeach.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (12 x 10cm), pp.[20]. With the errata slip at rear. Publisher's light green paper over boards, titled in dark green to upper, and priced at 1s to lower. Crisp and clean internally, with some wear and toning to spine. Covers..... More
Lorien Legacies. I Am Number Four; The Power of Six; The Rise of Nine; The Fall of Five; The Revenge of Seven; The Fate of Ten; United As One.
London: Michael Joseph, 2010 to 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] COMPLETE FIRST UK EDITIONS, the final volume SIGNED. Octavo (24 x 16 x 23cm), pp.[4] 360; pp.[4] 380; pp.[4] 330 [2]; pp.[4] 342 [6]; pp.[4] 315 [1]; pp.[4] 347 [1]; pp.[4] 348. Final volume SIGNED by the author in black ink..... More
United as One.
London: Michael Joseph, 2016. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 348. SIGNED by (an) author in blue ink as 'Pittacus Lore' to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £14.99. 'Signed Copy' Sticker to front cover..... More
Contract of Copartnery of the Clydesdale Banking Company.
Glasgow: James Lumsden and Son, 1838. [Scottish Banking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.70 [2]. Publisher's watered-silk-effect cloth over boards, with titles and crest stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt. A rather exquisite pencil sketch of the Clyde with square-rigged ships moored either side to verso of..... More
Storm-Wrack: A Night with the Brontes and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 103 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's green cloth with printed titles to a plain paper label on spine. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some toning to edges and..... More
The Caterpillar Cop.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1972. [Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Armorial bookplate to flyleaf, slight creasing to top edge of the dust-jacket. Fine. More
Shigurf Namah-i-Velaët, or, Excellent Intelligence Concerning Europe: Being the Travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France.
London: Published for John Taylor, 1827. [Middle Eastern and European Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 233 [3]. Advertisements at rear dated June 1827. With a colour frontispiece engraved by R.J. Laine and printed by C. Hullmandel. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles and ruling to spine..... More
The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Nauton, under the title "Fragmenta Regalia." With considerable Biographical Additions by James Caulfield.
London: Printed and Sold by G. Smeeton, and J. Caulfield, 1814. [Elizabethan Biographies] NEW REVISED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] 127 [1]. With 18 of the 21 engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Elizabeth I, but lacking Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Francis Knowles, and Lord Brooke. Publisher's blue /..... More
I Die Possessed.
London: Werner Laurie, 1953. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.223. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in white to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Barton. Some slight offset toning to endpapers, dust-jacket shows very well, very slight loss at head of spine panel, a near fine copy. More
Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval.
Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1926. [Irish Short Stories and Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 53 [1]. Number 183 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's plain card covers with grey endpapers. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Lightly..... More
Koningsmarke, The Long Finne. A story of the new world.
London: J Cunningham, 1839. Octavo. Extracted from The Novel Newspaper, no covers, paper spine. The text is clean, excepting some slight spotting to title page. More
Poems.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1853. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp. VIII; 191; [1]. Publisher's green cloth embossed with a flower/vine pattern with printed price of 5s to spine. Spotting throughout, spotting and toning to textblock, bumping to spine and edges, toning to spine, white mark to front..... More
Colbran's Guide for Tunbridge Wells. Being a Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and its Neighbourhood Within a Circuit of Nearly Twenty Miles, and Notices of the London and Dover Railway; Illustrated With Plates, Wood Engravings, etc., of Most of the Principle Places.
Tunbridge Wells: Printed and Published by John Colbran, 1840. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, first issue. Octavo, pp.[2] xiv; 404; xi; [33]. With sixteen engraved plates including a frontispiece, but lacking the map. Publisher's dark green cloth boards, recently re-backed with original cloth spine laid over. Gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Colbran's New Guide For Tunbridge Wells. Being a Full and Accurate Description of The Wells and its Neighbourhood Within a Circuit of Nearly Twenty Miles, and Notices of the London and Dover Railway; Illustrated With Plates, Wood Engravings, etc., of Most of the Principle Places.
London: A.H. Baily and Co., 1844. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp. x; 353; 4 [addenda]; 38 [advertisements]. Seven engravings plus fold-out map (Goulden notes nine), other illustrations within the text. Bound in later half tan calf over cream card boards, red title label to spine with gilt lettering, five raised bands..... More
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Virginia Edition.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1902. [Strange Tales and Mysteries]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Seventeen volumes. Crown octavo (16 x 11 x 39cm). With frontispiece engravings. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting green and brown labels to spines, gilt decoration to spines and marbled..... More